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Language Sciences Incubator Fund opens 21 November 2024

20 November 2024

New call for Language Sciences Incubator Fund Cambridge Language Sciences invites applications for the Language Sciences Incubator Fund , offering seed funding to support interdisciplinary research in the language sciences. This round offers additional funding opportunities for AI-focused proposals. We have the following...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Henriëtte Hendriks

12 November 2024

Henriëtte Hendriks is Professor of Language Acquisition and Cognition in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and cognition, and she is particularly interested on how children acquire their first language...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Saloni Krishnan

31 October 2024

Saloni Krishnan is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on childhood communication disorders, such as DLD (developmental language disorder) and dyslexia. Saloni is based at UCL Language and Cognition, where she is Associate Professor in Developmental Language Sciences. Saloni has received funding...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Emma James

25 October 2024

Dr Emma James is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of York. Her research focuses on the fundamental processes of how both children and adults learn, drawing upon memory, language and literacy research. She investigates key questions such as: How do we learn and retain new words? How do these...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Jean-Marc Dewaele

17 October 2024

Jean-Marc Dewaele is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London and Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck, University of London. His research spans social sciences and applied linguistics and focuses broadly on the effects of individual differences –...

Beyond words: Using AI to break down language communication barriers

27 June 2024

Meet Dr Matt Davis, who is leading ai@cam’s inspiring interdisciplinary initiative to discover the next AI innovations that could transform the lives of people facing language and communication barriers. What is the inspiration behind the Improving language equity and inclusion through AI project? New AI technologies are...

Chuo Research Seminar: Research Based on Experiments with Artificial Languages

29 April 2024

Cambridge Language Sciences hosted a hybrid seminar in Cambridge on 15 March on the use of artificial languages to better understand second language learning. The event showcased findings of an ongoing research collaboration between researchers in Theoretical & Applied Linguistics at Cambridge and at the Institute of...

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Language Sciences Incubator Fund projects announced April 2024

11 April 2024

We are delighted to announce that three new projects have been awarded seed funding through the Language Sciences Incubator Fund. The successful applicants from the latest call were announced on 11 April 2024. We would like to congratulate all concerned and thank the reviewers for giving their time to evaluate the...

Language Sciences project wins AI-deas funding to support research into language equity and inclusion

8 February 2024

A new language sciences related project on improving language equity is one of five winners of AI-deas funding supporting artificial intelligence innovations to address critical societal issues. Dr Matt Davis , Cambridge Language Sciences co-Director and Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC-...

Ianthi Tsimpli, Rosemary Varley and Matt Davis in research dialogue on the relationship between language and general cognition; Photo credit: Chris Loades

Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2023: Language and Mental Wellbeing

23 November 2023

‘Language and Mental Wellbeing’ was the theme of this year’s Language Sciences Annual Symposium which took place on 16 November at Cripps Court, Magdalene College. This year’s event was inspired by the ‘moonshot’ question ‘How can language use allow us to understand and predict mental health conditions?’. The moonshots are...

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